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2	2	119THCONGRESS
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4	4	STSESSION H. R. 744
5	5	To amend section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster Relief and Emer-
6	6	gency Assistance Act to incentivize States, Indian Tribes, and Territories
7	7	to close disaster recovery projects by authorizing the use of excess funds
8	8	for management costs for other disaster recovery projects.
9	9	IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
10	10	JANUARY28, 2025
11	11	Mr. N
12	12	EGUSE(for himself, Mr. EZELL, Mr. HARDERof California, Mr. STAN-
13	13	TON, Ms. STANSBURY, Ms. BONAMICI, Ms. JAYAPAL, Ms. TITUS, and Mr.
14	14	R
15	15	ASKIN) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
16	16	mittee on Transportation and Infrastructure
17	17	A BILL
18	18	To amend section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster
19	19	Relief and Emergency Assistance Act to incentivize
20	20	States, Indian Tribes, and Territories to close disaster
21	21	recovery projects by authorizing the use of excess funds
22	22	for management costs for other disaster recovery
23	23	projects.
24	24	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
25	25	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
26	26	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
27	27	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Disaster Management 4
28	28	Costs Modernization Act’’. 5
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32	32	SEC. 2. USE OF EXCESS FUNDS FOR MANAGEMENT COSTS. 1
33	33	(a) I
34	34	NGENERAL.—Section 324 of the Robert T. 2
35	35	Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 3
36	36	(42 U.S.C. 5165b) is amended— 4
37	37	(1) in subsection (b)(2)— 5
38	38	(A) by redesignating subparagraphs (A) 6
39	39	and (B) as clauses (i) and (ii), respectively, and 7
40	40	adjusting the margins accordingly; and 8
41	41	(B) in the matter preceding clause (i), as 9
42	42	so redesignated, by striking ‘‘provide the fol-10
43	43	lowing percentage rates’’ and inserting ‘‘pro-11
44	44	vide— 12
45	45	‘‘(A) excess funds for management costs as 13
46	46	described in subsection (c); and 14
47	47	‘‘(B) the following percentage rates’’; 15
48	48	(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as sub-16
49	49	section (d); and 17
50	50	(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the fol-18
51	51	lowing: 19
52	52	‘‘(c) U
53	53	SE OFEXCESSFUNDS FORMANAGEMENT 20
54	54	C
55	55	OSTS.— 21
56	56	‘‘(1) D
57	57	EFINITION.—In this subsection, the term 22
58	58	‘excess funds for management costs’ means the dif-23
59	59	ference between— 24
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63	63	‘‘(A) the amount of the applicable specific 1
64	64	management costs authorized under subsection 2
65	65	(b)(1) and subsection (b)(2)(B); and 3
66	66	‘‘(B) as of the date on which the grant 4
67	67	award is closed, the amount of funding for 5
68	68	management costs activities expended by the 6
69	69	grantee or subgrantee receiving the financial as-7
70	70	sistance for costs described in subparagraph 8
71	71	(A). 9
72	72	‘‘(2) A
73	73	VAILABILITY OF EXCESS FUNDS FOR 10
74	74	MANAGEMENT COSTS .—The President may make 11
75	75	available to a grantee or subgrantee receiving finan-12
76	76	cial assistance under section 403, 404, 406, 407, or 13
77	77	502 any excess funds for management costs. 14
78	78	‘‘(3) U
79	79	SE OF FUNDS.—Excess funds for man-15
80	80	agement costs made available to a grantee or sub-16
81	81	grantee under paragraph (2) may be used for— 17
82	82	‘‘(A) activities associated with building ca-18
83	83	pacity to prepare for, recover from, or mitigate 19
84	84	the impacts of a major disaster or emergency 20
85	85	declared under section 401 or 501, respectively; 21
86	86	and 22
87	87	‘‘(B) management costs associated with 23
88	88	any— 24
89	89	‘‘(i) major disaster; 25
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93	93	‘‘(ii) emergency; 1
94	94	‘‘(iii) disaster preparedness measure; 2
95	95	or 3
96	96	‘‘(iv) mitigation activity or measure 4
97	97	authorized under section 203, 204, 205, or 5
98	98	404. 6
99	99	‘‘(4) A
100	100	VAILABILITY.—Excess funds for manage-7
101	101	ment costs made available to a grantee or sub-8
102	102	grantee under paragraph (2) shall remain available 9
103	103	to the grantee or subgrantee until the date that is 10
104	104	5 years after the date on which the excess funds for 11
105	105	management costs are made available under para-12
106	106	graph (2).’’. 13
107	107	(b) A
108	108	PPLICABILITY.—The amendments made by sub-14
109	109	section (a) shall apply with respect to any grant award 15
110	110	in relation to a major disaster or emergency declared 16
111	111	under section 401 or 501, respectively, of the Robert T. 17
112	112	Stafford Disaster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act 18
113	113	(42 U.S.C. 5170, 5191)— 19
114	114	(1) the declaration of which is made on or after 20
115	115	the date of enactment of this Act; and 21
116	116	(2) that is funded with amounts appropriated 22
117	117	on or after the date of enactment of this Act. 23
118	118	(c) GAO S
119	119	TUDY.—Not later than 180 days after the 24
120	120	date of enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General 25
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124	124	of the United States shall submit to the Committee on 1
125	125	Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of the Sen-2
126	126	ate and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastruc-3
127	127	ture of the House of Representatives a report— 4
128	128	(1) on the actual management costs described 5
129	129	in section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Disaster 6
130	130	Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 7
131	131	5165b) during the period of a major disaster dec-8
132	132	laration under section 401 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 9
133	133	5170) to determine whether the amount set aside for 10
134	134	those management costs after the date of enactment 11
135	135	of this Act is appropriate; and 12
136	136	(2) that includes the management costs de-13
137	137	scribed in section 324 of the Robert T. Stafford Dis-14
138	138	aster Relief and Emergency Assistance Act (42 15
139	139	U.S.C. 5165b) for each disaster declared under dur-16
140	140	ing the period of a major disaster declaration under 17
141	141	section 401 of such Act (42 U.S.C. 5170) during the 18
142	142	5-year period preceding the date of the report, the 19
143	143	amount set aside for those management costs, the 20
144	144	use of those management costs, the length of each 21
145	145	disaster, and the reason for the length of each dis-22
146	146	aster. 23
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150	150	(d) NOADDITIONALFUNDS.—No additional funds 1
151	151	are authorized to be appropriated to carry out the amend-2
152	152	ments made by subsection (a). 3
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